Water-level-regulating device.



A. HLSIMMONS. WATER LEVELREGULATING DEViCE.

' APPLICATION man nun. 1917. 1,259,791. Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

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menus rs 30 r packing 4 encircling the pipe? within'the i A substantial spherical valve casing is connected with'the top of the pipe 3 within the trough, the said casing consistc N TED n'mann'r'nnnmi smmoivs on-onmnn, CALIFORNIA.

WATER-LEVELREGULATING"DEVICE;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT HENnY SIM- Mons, a citizen of the United States,-and a resident of Orland, in the county of :Glenn and State of California, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Water- My inventlon ls'anlmprovement in water 7 level regulating devices, and has for itsobject to provide mechanism of the character 7 specified usedin water troughs,-which will be automatically operated to admit the water 4 always retain the water at-a certain level in the trough.

Figure 1 1s a vertical section'through the improved valve and trough. i

Fig. 2 isa side view of the casing.-

Fig. 3 isa topplan viewer the float casing, and V o I,

Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the upper section of the valvecasing.

Thepresent embodiment of the-invention is shown in connection with a water trough 1 of usual construction, having inthe bot tom thereof an opening 2; through which is passed the supply pipe?! for the water, 2

opening 2.

ing of alower section 5 and an "upper sec tion 6 and the sections are flangedas shown scribed. I o a V The-upper end of thepipe 3 is threaded into a nipple 8' at the center of the lower section andthe uppersection '6 is provided at its center withaport 9; Aball valvecooperates with this port being arranged w thin the casing 5 and 6, and the valve-is con Level-Regulating Devices, of which the fo1* lowing is a specification;

float and valve a series of "openings 14 for insuring that pc t q 91 L s Patent-I Patented Mar.,19, 1918.; 1' Application filed May 14, 1917; Serial No. 168,415 5 i V nected by. a stem ll with a floatf12; The i float and the stem are inclosed by substan tial cylindrical casing'13, whichfhas its up per end closed, as shown, andprovidedjwith 7 pressure within thefioat casing will; be atmospheric. 'Thisfloat casing has a mar ginalflange 716' at its open end which rests.

upon theflan'ges 7 of the section 6 of the valve casing,;and the three'flanges are secured together by bolts and nuts 15.

i Whenever the water in the trough reaches a predetermined level, the float will "close the valve ,10 against the port'9, sealing-the f said port, and preventing thefurther inflow of water. As soon asthe waterfalls'below Thus the water is retained at a predetermined level. y I n It willbe noticedthat the valve is pivoted Vi f o to the stem so that it may move freely with respect to the stem to permit it to seat properly, and that the cylindrical casing hasdischa'rge openings 17 forv the waten v spherlcal valve casing at the top of the pipe and connecting with the pipe and havlng' a port at its top, -a ball valve within the casing cooperating with the portfa float, pa-s'tem connecting the float to thevalve, a casing inclosing the float and secured. to the valve casing and having openings in its top for equalizingthe air pressure within the seas ing. and also having discharge openings in its 'side below the float, said spherical casing "being sectional and the sections having mar ginal flanges abutting, the float inclosing casing'having also a marginal flange abutting the flanges of the sections and means for securing the flanges together;

' the predetermined level, thefioat willdrop' and the valve will open permitting'thewaten ,l 1 to enter the trough-to replace that d; o I

V In combination with a troughand asu pi I ply pipeleadingthereto ofa substantially 7 A BERT HENRY sr Monsif Gopies of this patent may be obtained 10:". five c en ts each, by addressing the coznmisslqner or Yatents, J

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